Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Quiz | One Week Quiz A

David Remnick
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Quiz | One Week Quiz A

David Remnick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 151 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?
(a) Buchenwald Monument.
(b) The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
(c) Dachau Memorial.
(d) Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

2. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Walesa.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Dubcek.

3. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) They saw him shot.
(b) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(c) They were told by the camp commandant.
(d) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.

4. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) An hour.
(c) Two hours.
(d) 30 minutes.

5. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?
(a) At age 12.
(b) At age 10.
(c) First grade.
(d) Kindergarten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?

2. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

3. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

4. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?

5. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

(see the answer key)

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